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Sometimes I think instead of “Callout post: so-and-so is sexist and ableist,” it should just be “Callout post: so-and-so is an obnoxious jackass.” There’s always an argument over whether so-and-so is actually bigoted or just trolling, but trolls are also jackasses, so who cares? It also makes the (lack of) stakes clearer, since your average bigoted jackass is no more influential than your average troll.

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I didn’t pick this argument at the time, but if being a black woman gave that one blogger more authority to discuss how black women suffer under patriarchy, shouldn’t being a man give someone more authority to discuss how men suffer under patriarchy? I mean, she claimed that when people said men suffer under patriarchy, they were contradicting her “personal experience,” but I don’t think she had personal experience of being a man.